An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and winner of a Peabody Award, Life According to Sam follows one family’s courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal aging disease. Directed by Oscar® winners Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine (Inocente), this highly personal and life-affirming journey is propelled by the captivating presence of Sam Berns. Funny, perceptive and fiercely intelligent, 16-year-old Sam is the catalyst for his physician parents’ relentless drive to discover a medical breakthrough that may one day shed light on unlocking the aging process in us all.

BONUS FEATURES

My Philosophy for a Happy Life: Sam Berns at TEDxMidAtlantic 2013

Introduction to the Progeria Research Foundation featuring Dave Matthews and Sam Berns